Read selections from
Pierce's The
People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser; or,
Medicine Explained,
(below) 1895, Buffalo,
New York, from Pierce's
own press at his World's
Dispensary Medical
Association: "Spermatorrhea'
(loss of semen without
copulation, which
usually means masturbation),
portrait
of Pierce, and his hospital.

Look at the
magnificent Invalid's Hotel and Surgical Institute that Dr.
Pierce created
(right below)
in Buffalo,
New York, and
its entrance
(bottom
picture). Both
come from his
Medical
Adviser, 1895 edition. This edition states that it had a staff
of 18
"physicians
and surgeons."

But "The
Great American
Fraud,"
an historic
article (1905)
in Collier's
long series
exposing
America's
scandalous
patent
medicine
business,
the writer
says the
impressive
buildings
often pictured
in the
business'
marketing
material were often exaggerated. I wonder if this
building below
was too.